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Since its founding in 1855, Berea College has been
inspired by its Great Commitments to invest in lives of
great promise, connect them to build a strong learning
community, and thereby transform those students, the
region we serve, and the world beyond.
“The new Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and
Health building is an investment in that mission
of connection and transformation that will propel
Berea College forward in the 21st century, rising to the
challenge of its inspiring Commitments and providing a
unique model for higher education in our country.”
— Lyle D. Roelofs
President, Berea College
Berea College’s
New Natural
Sciences and
Health Building
In the spirit of our Great Commitments, we invite our alumni and
friends to participate in this crucial campaign to invest in, connect with
and transform Berea College as it advances its mission to meet the
evolving educational, social, physical and spiritual needs of deserving
students in the Appalachian region through construction of the new
Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health Building.
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The Challenge and The Opportunity
The Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health Building is a
necessary response to the rapid advance of science and technology
today. By bringing together all of the natural sciences (biology, chemistry,
geology, physics), mathematics and nursing under one roof, the building
will create an interactive, technologically rich learning environment that
will serve Berea’s students for the next 50 years.
With this great opportunity, however, comes an equally great challenge:
The proposed building will cost an estimated $72 million, far beyond
what the College could afford on its own.
Fortunately, one generous supporter has stepped up to that challenge
by agreeing to provide a three to one match, if the College can find
partners to raise an additional $10 million by June 30, 2018.
This is an extraordinary opportunity for anyone thinking of making
a difference at Berea. By contributing to this vital campaign, you
will effectively quadruple the impact of your gift and ensure that
generations of promising students are afforded transformational
educational opportunities that take advantage of the rapidly changing
worlds of science and technology and health.
Science and technology are moving so quickly now,
making everything much more integrated. It’s really
necessary today to have one building that serves as an
incubator . . . where all math, natural science and health
disciplines can interact, allowing the students to gain
an immediate curiosity about and appreciation of the
broader applications of what they’re studying across
different fields.”
— Dr. Rocky Tuan, ’72, Chemistry
Director of the Cellular and Molecular Engineering Lab
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Invest in Innovative Learning Spaces
Since 1927, the Hall Science Building has been the focal point for
science instruction and learning at Berea.
Once a modern facility for students, it is now obsolete, and today’s
science, mathematics, and health graduates are succeeding in their fields
despite the existing building, not because of it. Innovation in science and
nursing instruction has left Berea’s outdated buildings behind.
Berea’s students deserve up-to-date facilities that give them the
resources they need to gain entrance into high-quality graduate and
professional programs and to secure competitive positions in industry,
top-level research labs, healthcare or teaching. They are competing
with graduates who have been trained in better-equipped and newer
buildings designed to facilitate discovery and empower learning. It is
long overdue for Berea to provide such a space for its students.
However, we cannot do so without your help.
It’s pretty much the same as it was when I took biology
and chemistry classes there almost 60 years ago. It was a
good building in the 1950s, but it has only been upgraded
minimally, and the fields of chemistry, biology, math,
physics, and nursing have changed dramatically in that
time frame.”
— Dr. Harold “Hal” Moses, ’58, Chemistry
Trustee and Director Emeritus
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
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Invest in Future Generations
New science facilities catalyze an interest in science. Institutions with
new science buildings typically see increases of 25 percent in students
pursuing science as a major. Berea’s current building, however, causes
some students to turn away from the fastest growing fields in health
and sciences. And because many of our students did not have access
to adequate educational resources and facilities in high school, it is
our obligation to level the playing field to train future generations
in math, science, and nursing. The new Natural Sciences and Health
Building will provide the access to high-quality educational resources
Berea’s students of great promise need to succeed in Appalachia and
across the world.
Right now, there is a lack of space in our labs. Some
students decide to change majors because of class
scheduling issues. If we have more space, we can retain
science majors and have room to engage even more new
students.”
— KaamilahWilson, Chemistry, Pre-Med,’16
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Invest In Emerging and
Evolving Fields of Study
Your investment in this new facility will create a dynamic space where
various disciplines interact and yield emerging and evolving fields of
study. Attracting students from all disciplines, the building will become
a dynamic hub for students and faculty to pursue innovation, discover
new knowledge and expand our collective intelligence.
Historically many majors at Berea College have
developed first as student-driven independent majors
and then as fully fledged majors designed to support
student engagement in emerging fields of inquiry. The
new Natural Sciences and Health Building is expected to
create the same type of collaboration between students
and faculty in science, math, and healthcare fields.”
— Dr. Scott Steele
Dean of Curriculum and Student Learning
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Invest in Our Region’s Sciences
The Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health Building will allow
Berea College to bring back and advance programs that have a special
connection to our region.
Geology, for example, will return to the College—an academic
program especially meaningful in the Appalachian region where
real-world study and applications are immediately available and
critical to creating sustainable economic and environmental systems.
Archeology will also share space with geology in the new building in
order to utilize the great learning laboratory of the College’s 9,000-
acre forest, an area rich in artifacts from cultures that predate
European settlements.
Coal, natural gas and energy issues all play a huge role
in Appalachia. By bringing the Geology program back
to Berea College in an interdisciplinary atmosphere,
we will offer great new career opportunities for Berea
students and equip them to take part in solving the
economic and environmental challenges of our region’s
natural resources.”
— Dr. Lyle Roelofs
President, Berea College
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Connect Knowledge to Discovery
The Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health Building will enable
faculty and students to build on existing knowledge and create innovative
approaches to challenging questions that cannot be addressed using
a single disciplinary approach. Combining math, science, and health
education under one roof, the building will add project labs for students
and faculty to support new discovery.
I believe a science degree from Berea to be one of the best
educations available. The liberal arts provide students
with an holistic appreciation and understanding of
the world, while studies in math and science provide
students with the technical training needed to engage
and thrive in the real world.”
— Dr. Matthew Saderholm, ’92
Chair of Academic Division I
Associate Professor of Chemistry
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Connect Science to Other Disciplines
Innovative design in this new building puts science, math and nursing
learning on display for all students, connecting majors and non-majors
in new and compelling ways. Seeing learning in action may inspire a
first-year student, for example, who might never have considered a
science, math or nursing degree. And general education courses will
inspire future generations of students in new learning and lab settings
to understand the connection of learning across multiple disciplines.
Indeed, connecting different disciplines was one of several dreams of
Berea’s founder, John G. Fee, who sought to create a school “in which
youth should be instructed not only in the principles of the natural
sciences, but also in the principles of liberty and justice.”
In addition to its long and continued history as an
autonomous endeavor, mathematics is an essential
component of all the natural sciences and health fields.
It is also integral in the interdisciplinary investigations
critical for ensuring success in fields such as education,
bioinformatics, climate change, finance, economics and
engineering, among others.
This new building will allow us simultaneously to
sustain mathematics as an independent endeavor and
integrate mathematics, statistics, and computation
with STEM and health programs to better train the
next generation to tackle critical problems that affect
economic growth, health, national security and more.”
— Dr. James Lynch
Associate Professor of Mathematics
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Connect Health to Math and the Sciences
A key indicator of success for the new science and health building will
be the extent to which all students are welcome and use the space. So
connecting science majors with non-science majors shows all students
the value of the breadth of liberal arts inquiry.
And this well-planned, well-equipped building will serve students in
the core programs even better. For example, nursing students will
be better served by having anatomy and physiology faculty and lab
space on the same floor, as well as math faculty and tutors nearby
in the same building. Nurses are being called upon to fill expanding
roles and to master technological tools and information management
systems while collaborating and coordinating care across teams of
health professionals, as well as perform daily tasks such as calculating
medicine dosages and converting units and drip rates. The integrated
nature of the new building will help foster competencies in leadership,
health policy, system improvement, research and evidence-based
practice, and teamwork and collaboration.
[Some students say] that the nursing program is very
difficult. Right now pre-nursing students are in the
science building, and nursing students are in a different
building. We don’t even know each other. If we did, the
older students could help younger pre-nursing students
if they have struggles along the way. Being in the same
building will demystify the program, reduce fear about
the work and help students know each other better.”
— Gladys Kamau
Nursing Student, ‘16
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Connect Prospective Students to Berea
The Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health Building will
extend Berea’s commitment to outreach in Appalachia and will be a
tool to educate and inspire students from the region who visit our
campus.
While Berea’s innovative outreach programs such as Upward Bound
and GEAR UP have significantly increased college-going rates for
children in Appalachia, there is still more work to be done.
This building will be at the heart of this effort by featuring a wide variety
of interactive exploration spaces designed to inspire young minds.
Special areas such as the Discovery Center, the Digital Learning
Theatre/Planetarium and the 3-D Visualization Lab will be powerful
tools for successful outreach. Using multimedia, standing exhibits
and hands-on areas for exploration and discovery, these areas will
put science on display throughout the building and inspire a new
generation. Research shows that when younger students visit a college
and see peer role models at work, they are better able to imagine
themselves attending and being successful in college.
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Connect High School Teachers to
Innovative Science Education
It’s not easy to increase the flow of high school science and math
students into higher education’s pipeline.
Roughly 30 percent of public high school chemistry and physics
teachers and 25 percent of math teachers did not major in these fields;
a significant number have not earned a certificate to teach those
subjects, particularly in the underserved areas from which many of
Berea’s students come.
The Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health Building will
become a place to train Appalachia’s teachers and serve as a launching
pad for the application of innovative techniques in their classrooms.
Berea will also enhance their ability to make interdisciplinary
connections; strengthen their capacity to look at questions from
multiple perspectives and develop the habits of critical, creative and
reflective inquiry. And through this synergy, more high school students
in Appalachia will be exposed to the best methods of scientific teaching
and learning, increasing educational attainment in one of the nation’s
most economically challenged regions.
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Transform Student Lives
Berea is the only one of America’s top colleges that awards every
enrolled student a No-Tuition Promise Scholarship, because we
believe a student’s income should not dictate one’s outcome.
We are able to make and deliver on this promise because of the
support of our alumni and friends. They believe in the way Berea
consistently provides it students an educational environment where
they can excel and reach their full potential.
The Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health Building is the
next vital step in ensuring that we can continue this tradition of
excellence. By providing our students a learning environment that
will support and promote interdisciplinary problem-solving, we can
transform student dreams, and the potential they represent, into
achievements that will change our world.
Imagine a student who went through high school with
out-of-date textbooks, poorly equipped science labs
and no access to computers or proper healthcare.
Imagine transforming that student through
high-quality, affordable education into a caring
nurse or physician. Or a committed math teacher, a
renowned cancer researcher, a nationally recognized
nurse—or even another Nobel laureate to stand on the
shoulders of past Berea success stories. The Natural
Sciences and Health Building isn’t just brick and
mortar and steel. It’s a bridge to the future for all of us.”
— Chad Berry
Academic Vice President and Dean of the Faculty
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Transform Healthcare in the Region
As one of America’s most challenged regions for quality healthcare,
Appalachia needs caring and capable doctors, nurses and other
healthcare professionals.
With your help, Berea’s faculty will be able to effectively teach and train
the next generation of healthcare professionals in a modern facility.
Berea graduates are taught a holistic and interdisciplinary approach
to medical problem-solving, one essential for compassionate care and
healing.
And, thanks to the breadth and depth of Berea’s education, our
graduates also learn to take care of their own personal wellness,
allowing them to have even greater satisfaction and impact in their lives.
The new building sets the stage for inter-professional
education whereby students from different disciplines
engage with one another to improve outcomes for
healthcare problems commonly faced by the people
we serve in Appalachia. Learning how to work as
effective healthcare team members is foundational
to the competence we expect to see as our graduates
lead efforts for healthcare change in Appalachia and
beyond.”
— Dr. Monica Kennison
Susan V. Clayton Professor of Nursing and Chair
Baccalaureate Nursing Program
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Transform the World
Berea College graduates have been transforming the world for
more than 160 years. In 1934, less than 10 years after Hall Science
building opened, John D. Fenn graduated from Berea, and in his
distinguished career developed key analytical techniques for the study
of large molecules, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry. In 1947, Samuel Hurst graduated with a degree in physics
and went on to develop touch-screen technology, forever changing
the global economy. And there are many others.
Now, your investment in the Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and
Health Building will build on this legacy of transformative education.
With your support, we will equip future innovators, educators, caring
professionals and business leaders with the tools to change the world
in ways we cannot yet imagine.
Berea’s unique because it teaches you to work and
learn and serves as an inspiration in people’s lives.
This building will enhance that uniqueness and the
new learning will serve as a launching pad for future
students.”
— Dr. Warren “Gene” Bulman, ‘48
Founder
Ohio Semitronics, Inc.
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The time is now to
invest in, connect with and
transform Berea College.
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When we imagine the future, this is what we see for Berea graduates
and Appalachia. An investment in the Margaret A. Cargill Natural
Sciences and Health Building is an investment in the promise of
our students and our region. With your help, we’ll prepare the next
generation of researchers, educators, nurses, doctors and leaders for
the science and health challenges that lie ahead.
We need your support to give the next great minds of this generation
the opportunity to flourish. By giving now—with the existing donor
challenge in place—you can effectively triple the impact of your gift.
You will also feel the deep satisfaction of knowing that you helped
transform the quality of education for students at Berea and the
quality of life for all throughout the region.
Help Great Minds Flourish
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Please invest in the future
with us today. Help us
connect our students to
transformational
experiences so that they may,
inturn, change theworld.
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No great project is accomplished by one person.
Together, as a community of donors and supporters,
we can make much more progress, and we can do it
more quickly. So we invite anyone who has a heart for
Berea, for education, for disadvantaged students—who
have such promise—to support bringing opportunities
to this world.”
— Carl Evans, ’62, and Dr. Ann Evans
supporters of The Margaret A. Cargill
Natural Sciences and Health Building
